{"id":11952,"date":"2023-02-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:21:20","slug":"scientific-journals-increase-in-paper-mill-submissions-and-fraud-cause-editors-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/scientific-journals-increase-in-paper-mill-submissions-and-fraud-cause-editors-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Journals: Increase in Paper Mill Submissions and Fraud Cause Editors Headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Writings found in scientific academic journals might be expected to be heavily checked and verified. If you can find it in a journal article, it’s likely to be true or our best-known understanding of the truth. But alternative truths seem to pop up everywhere and the writings in scientific journals are no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fraud and paper-mill articles are issues that journals infrequently bring up. A study by Nature found hundreds of fraudulent papers in academic journals. In many cases, fraud is organized and paper mills ghost-author fabricated content on behalf of researchers. The practice is common in China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catriona Fennell<\/a>, head of publishing services at Elsevier, said that<\/a> “the problem of organized fraud in publishing is not new, and not confined to China. We\u2019ve seen evidence of industrialized cheating from several other countries, including Iran and Russia.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nature: Investigation of Fraud in Scientific Journals<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The number of scientific papers retracted has grown by a factor of 10 <\/a>since 2010 with fraud accounting for about 60 percent of those cases. Some of the increase in numbers is attributed to better oversight by journal editors. Nicholas Steneck<\/a>, a research ethics expert at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said that <\/a>“retractions have increased because editorial practices are improving and journals are trying to encourage editors to take retractions seriously.”<\/p>\n

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Writings found in scientific academic journals might be expected to be heavily checked and verified. If you can find it in a journal article, it’s likely to be true or our best-known understanding of the truth. But alternative truths seem…<\/span><\/p>\n

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